Three prior PRs (#97 panels, #98 backdrop-filter, #99 box-shadow
composition) all landed correct CSS but the user reported the design
"still looks the same" on /my-cards and /dashboard. CDP diagnostic on
both production and a local dev build found the actual root causes:
1) The body background is a flat warm-white (#fefcf8). Glass surfaces
sitting on a same-hue solid have nothing to blur — the backdrop-
filter renders but produces no visible distortion. The "glass" reads
as a flat 68%-alpha rectangle over an identical 100% color, which
is visually indistinguishable from a solid card.
2) Pages with populated data (the user's /my-cards with 2 cards) have
ZERO .glass-panel elements after PR #97's sweep. The 1 panel I
migrated on my-cards was the empty-state CTA — which never renders
when the user has cards. Dashboard had 5, but most of the visible
chrome (header strip, recent-lists card) was left flat by my prior
"page headers stay solid" call. That call was wrong: in this layout
the sidebar is the only persistent chrome, so the page header strip
has no glass-topbar to compete with.
Fix — two changes that compound:
(A) Hearth gradient on body. Soft warm radial-glow biased to the
bottom-left (the seat of a fire) + a second softer warm glow at
the top-right + a subtle vertical wash from cooler-top to warmer-
bottom. background-attachment: fixed so scrolling content slides
OVER the gradient (which is what creates the parallax-blur
behavior glass needs). Dark theme version replaces the secondary
radial with the purple accent. All values intentionally low-alpha
(8% ember, 6% gold in light; 16%/8% in dark) — readable, not
garish.
(B) New .page-header-glass utility for the recurring page-header-
strip pattern. tint=high (it spans full content width and needs
more visual weight than .glass-panel) + blur=20px + the rim-light
inset highlight + a 1px shadow as the bottom separator. Applied
via mechanical sweep to the 6 page header strips on:
- /my-cards
- /dashboard
- /community/collections
- components/CardsPageView (used by /cards)
- components/CollectionsPageView (used by /collections)
- components/CollectionPageView (used by /collection/[id])
After this PR, /my-cards (and every other authenticated page) will
show a distinctly translucent floating header strip with a soft top
highlight against the warm hearth gradient — i.e. an actual visible
design shift, even on data-grid pages with no inner cards.
Verified locally — npm run build, lint clean, vitest 104/104.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Follow-up PR to #95 (Liquid Glass foundation + primitives + Layout shell)
that closes out the remaining sub-convoy briefs in a single sweep.
Operator-instructed scope: "finish off the design changes."
After this PR, **all 8 Liquid Glass sub-convoys are MERGED to main**;
the deferred-from-#5 `fix-card3d-state` convoy is dropped (its target,
`components/Card3D.js`, turned out to be dead code).
## #2 Brief 2 — Remaining 8 modals migrated to <Modal> primitive
- `CollectionsSuccessModal.js` — wrap in <Modal hideCloseButton>; 2 Buttons.
- `CollectionsEditModal.js` — full <Modal> + <Input> + <Button> rewrite (4 fields, tag chip section, public-toggle preserved, 2 footer Buttons).
- `CollectionEditModal.js` — same pattern as above (4 fields + public-toggle + 2 Buttons).
- `CardDetailDeckModal.js` — <Modal> + native select (Select primitive not in scope) + 2 Buttons; sweep `gradient-bg-purple` → `<Button variant="primary">`.
- `UploadImageModal.js` — <Modal> + token-driven URL/file tab switcher + drag-drop using `--accent-ember` rim + 2 Buttons (one with `loading` prop).
- `CollectionSelectionModal.js` — largest of the set (header summary + SearchBar + scrollable list w/ checkbox toggles + footer); migrated to <Modal size="lg"> while preserving the per-collection card preview thumbnails.
- `OCRSettings.js` — trivial <Modal> wrap + single primary <Button>.
- `pages/decks.js` — both inline modals (Create Deck + Edit Deck) and `components/ScannerPageView.js` (Create List) migrated; ScannerPageView dropped its `useFocusTrap` named-import (Modal's internal focus trap owns the panel ref now).
- **`.github/workflows/ci.yml` `forbidden-modal-shell-without-primitive`** — grandfather list emptied to zero entries; gate is now strict.
## #3 Brief 2 — Forms migrated to <Button> / <SearchBar>
- `pages/dashboard.js` — 3 CTAs → <Button> (Create List with leadingIcon, Create Your First List, View All Lists).
- `pages/my-cards.js` — empty-state CTA → <Button variant="primary" size="lg">. View-mode toggle buttons intentionally left native (icon-only, doesn't match Button variants).
- `pages/community/collections.js` — Go to My Lists CTA → <Button>.
- `components/CollectionsPageView.js` — Discover Community + Create List header CTAs → <Button>; search input → <SearchBar>.
- Card-grid per-row icon buttons (CollectionsPageView, my-cards, CardsPageView) intentionally left native — tiny per-card actions whose styling doesn't match Button variants and would invalidate visual-diff baselines.
## #5 — scope revised + landed
`components/Card3D.js` deletion: surveyed every importer with grep — **zero consumers** in `pages/**` or `components/**`. Only references were in convoy docs. The "pre-existing state-management bug" (state setters used without useState declarations) never affected the running app because the component was never rendered. -505 LOC. The `fix-card3d-state` convoy is dropped from the roadmap as a result.
The actual card-grid component (`components/CardItem.js`) is intentionally **not** modified in this sweep — it has per-rarity glow tuning that the existing visual-diff baseline locks in, and the architect's #5 deferral note specifically called out the dedicated baseline re-seed cost. A future implementer turn can apply rim-light tokens to CardItem with its own baseline re-seed when an operator wants that polish.
## #6 Brief 1 — Landing + invite pages glass-migrated
- `pages/index.js` — top nav: `var(--glass-surface-mid)` + `--glass-blur-mid` + rim-light. 3 feature cards: `<GlassSurface tint="mid" rim="subtle" elevation="ambient">`. Featured-list cards (the public collection grid): same `<GlassSurface>` recipe with motion-token transitions. All 6 CTA buttons → <Button variant="primary"|"secondary"|"ghost"> with proper sizes. Pulse-loading placeholders tagged `.motion-essential` so reduced-motion users still see them animate (state-meaningful).
- `pages/invite/accept.js` + `pages/invite/decline.js` — both outcome panels wrapped in `<GlassSurface tint="mid" rim="subtle" elevation="pronounced">`. Loading spinner border colors corrected from `--text-accent` (which didn't exist) to `--accent-ember`. All 8 buttons → <Button>. `gradient-bg-ember` consumers retained (the canonical warm-palette utility class is fine).
## #8 Brief 2 — Legacy alias sweep + CI gate graduation
- Swept `gradient-bg-purple` → `gradient-bg-ember` across **8 files** / **13 occurrences**: `CardDetailQuantityModal`, `CardEditorView`, `CardEditorForm`, `AdminProtected`, `pages/card/[id]`, `pages/invite/{accept,decline}`, `pages/admin/card-import`. `gradient-bg-purple` was a dangling class name with no CSS definition (it was rendering no styling), so the sweep is also a bug fix — those buttons now actually get the ember gradient.
- Deleted the 5 dead CSS classes from `styles/globals.css`: `.gradient-text-blue`, `.gradient-text-purple`, `[data-theme="dark"] .glow-blue`, `[data-theme="dark"] .glow-purple`, `[data-theme="dark"] .glow-pink`. Each was zero-consumer post-sweep.
- **Graduated the `forbidden-deprecated-color-aliases` CI job from WARN to FAIL.** All 9 patterns (`gradient-text-{purple,pink,blue}`, `glow-{purple,pink,blue}`, `gradient-bg-{purple,blue,pink}`) now block the build if any consumer is reintroduced.
## Verification (local + CI gates locally exercised)
- Lint: 0 errors, 2 pre-existing warnings (`CardEditorForm.js` + `CollectionsPageView.js` carry-overs from before #95; out of scope).
- Vitest: 104/104 passing — unchanged from #95.
- Build: clean (Turbopack default; passes both light + dark theme prerender).
- `forbidden-modal-shell-without-primitive` gate: locally clear (`grep -lE 'fixed inset-0 bg-black bg-opacity-' pages components -r --include='*.js'` returns no matches).
- `forbidden-deprecated-color-aliases` gate: locally clear (all 9 patterns return no matches in `pages/` or `components/`).
## What still needs human action
- **Linux visual-diff baselines** must re-seed via the Docker workflow in `AGENTS.md` § 6. This PR's landing-page + invite-page changes will produce baseline drift on the homepage screenshot (which is currently the only baseline committed) AND additional baselines will be generated for the landing's glass-card sections once the visual spec is expanded. Recommended: run the Docker re-seed against this PR's Vercel preview, commit the result to this branch, push, verify CI green, then merge.
- Vercel auto-promotes the merge to production.
## Closes / supersedes
- Closes `.convoys/liquid-glass-modal-and-surface-primitive.md` Brief 2 (status → merged).
- Closes `.convoys/liquid-glass-form-primitives.md` Brief 2 (status → merged with explicit per-row-icon-button deferral note).
- Closes `.convoys/liquid-glass-public-and-auth.md` Brief 1 (status → merged).
- Closes `.convoys/cleanup-legacy-design-css.md` Brief 2 (status → merged + CI gate FAIL).
- Drops `.convoys/liquid-glass-card-surfaces.md` Brief 1 prerequisite (`fix-card3d-state` no longer needed; Card3D deleted).
- Drops the queued `fix-card3d-state` follow-up from the roadmap (target deleted).
- Updates `.convoys/ship-readiness.md` § "Design-system redesign portfolio" with a "Finish-portfolio sweep" subsection documenting final status of all 8 sub-convoys.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Resolve react-hooks, no-unescaped-entities, and no-img-element findings
under pages/ with lint-only changes so npx eslint pages/ exits clean.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Correct dashboard title (My Collection overview, not Lists), sweep
remaining marketing/auth copy, update system-list seed description,
add vocabulary unit tests, and close the convoy record.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* Align UI copy with My Collection vs Lists vocabulary.
Replace stale ownership/list labels across pages and components, add
lib/collection-vocabulary.js as the single copy source, document the
taxonomy in AGENTS.md, and gate retired strings in CI.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* Fix remaining list/collection copy gaps from review.
Sweep community, settings, share modal, scanner create-list modal,
and invite flows for vocabulary consistency before merge.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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